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Town & Country Foods ↗

— Town Country Foods

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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#home #hometown #new-york-city #new-yorker #optimism

Town and Country Foods Town and Country Foods ↗

— Town and Country Foods

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I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#another #assumed #dance #dancing #even

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#small-towns #men

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. ↗

— Richard Russo

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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#cents #cheap #convenient #cost #downtown

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town. ↗

— Don Ameche

#i #i think #seen #sweetest #think

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

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